Chelsea F.C. — Best pictures!

Olympique Marseille forward and Senegal international Mamadou Niang (pictured) has replaced departing Karim Benzema (for Real Madrid) at the top of the FTBL ranking of forwards in the French Ligue 1 with 156.13 points.

The future of Cameroon international Samuel Eto’o (pictured), Africa’s best player according to FTBL, remains up in the air as talks between the striker and Barcelona about a contract extension reportedly remain inconclusive.

The world’s best defender at the moment, Chelsea’s John Terry (141.75 points), is reportedly being aggressively pursued by Manchester City, who are offering to increase the England international’s salary to a weekly 200,000 pounds aside from the 40 million

Bayern Munich central defender Lucio would become the top FTBL-rated defender at Inter Milan if he were to join the Nerrazzuri. With his current rating of 140.27 points, he would also become the best rated defender in the Italian Serie A, while second

Yuri Zhirkov, who will soon be officially presented as a Chelsea player, will have to prove he is worthy of the 25 million euro transfer fee paid for him, as his overall rating of 80.78 points remains relatively low for the English Premier League.